White Hall State Historic Site is a 14-acre (5.7 ha) park in Richmond, Kentucky, southeast of Lexington.

On April 12, 2011, White Hall was designated as a national historic site in journalism by the Society of Professional Journalists, because of Clay's career as a publisher.

He was an anti-slavery newspaper publisher, politician, soldier and Minister to Russia through the Lincoln, Johnson and Grant administrations.

This restored 44-room Italianate house began as a 8-room structure built in 1798–1799 in the Georgian style by General Green Clay which he called Clermont.

Mary Jane Warfield Clay, oversaw the enlarging of Clermont into the structure that is now White Hall.

White Hall was first home to General Green Clay who built the original structure, Claremont.

Despite his father being one of the largest landholders and slaveholders in Kentucky, Clay supported the gradual freeing of enslaved peoples, which was unusual for men of his class at this time.

Clay published an anti-slavery newspaper called The True American in Lexington, KY and was later forced to move production to Cincinnati, OH.

The Madison County Garden Club members were among those who spearheaded the effort to preserve the historic home.

EKU hopes to use the building as a real-world teaching opportunity for the Department of Recreation and Park Administration.

The names of those who bought pieces of furniture from the auction were listed on the inventory and sale book of the State Bank & Trust Company and the Madison County Clerk's office.

Cassius M. Clay's original appointment as US Ambassador to Russia was donated to the State of Kentucky by Bruce Ferguson.

Pieces of a China set that once belonged to Cassius M. Clay were also donated by Mrs. William C. Benton of Denver, CO.

Junius gained his own notoriety serving as a commissioner to the Paris Exposition in 1900 and then as US Ambassador to Switzerland from 1905 to 1912.